Scraping my old computer

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:01 pm

Right now i have a dead computer setting in my closet. Its been in there for about a month and i got to do something about it!!! My old one has a 60 gig hard drive and a CD RW/DVD drive. Can i hook these up to my new computer? As far as everything else my old computer is a pile of crap.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:07 pm

If it still runs you can make it into a home server. This is good so you only have to share one computer and you can get access to your music, movies, word docs, etc.
Or you can just rip out the otha stuff and stick it in your new comp.

Warbandit mk 3 · Post by **Warbandit mk 3** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:20 pm

llamaboy772 wrote:Right now i have a dead computer setting in my closet. Its been in there for about a month and i got to do something about it!!! My old one has a 60 gig hard drive and a CD RW/DVD drive. Can i hook these up to my new computer? As far as everything else my old computer is a pile of crap.

Yes.

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:06 pm

BEEF!!! wrote:If it still runs you can make it into a home server. This is good so you only have to share one computer and you can get access to your music, movies, word docs, etc.
Or you can just rip out the otha stuff and stick it in your new comp.

i have a dead computer

And i'm asking how to put in the stuff.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:21 pm

llamaboy772 wrote:
BEEF!!! wrote:If it still runs you can make it into a home server. This is good so you only have to share one computer and you can get access to your music, movies, word docs, etc.
Or you can just rip out the otha stuff and stick it in your new comp.

i have a dead computer
And i'm asking how to put in the stuff.

Ah, sorry. Missed that lil' fact.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:22 pm

what speed is the CD/DVD drive?

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:28 pm

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:11 pm

Your new comp should have 2 drives.If it has 2 don't put another one in.I would dlete the partition on the old harddrive and make a new one and use it as a second empty partition and fill it up with all the crap you have

VoYdE · Post by **VoYdE** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:23 pm

i have like 1000 old windows 95 pcs they sit in my basement because they are to old to bother with, they take up a ton of space

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:33 pm

Patrickssj6 wrote:Your new comp should have 2 drives.If it has 2 don't put another one in.I would dlete the partition on the old harddrive and make a new one and use it as a second empty partition and fill it up with all the crap you have

Actrally my computer only has one Lightscribe drive, and a expansion slot for a new drive.....and why have wasted space? But what i need to know is HOW i hook up these things to my computer?

The_Hushed_Casket · Post by **The_Hushed_Casket** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:12 pm

llamaboy772 wrote:
Patrickssj6 wrote:Your new comp should have 2 drives.If it has 2 don't put another one in.I would dlete the partition on the old harddrive and make a new one and use it as a second empty partition and fill it up with all the crap you have
Actrally my computer only has one Lightscribe drive, and a expansion slot for a new drive.....and why have wasted space? But what i need to know is HOW i hook up these things to my computer?

You should just be able to pop open you computer, and plug them in. If the old CD drive doesn't have an IDE cable (or whatever interface it is) you'll have to find one. But then you should just be able to plug it in, and plug in the 4 pin power connector from your PSU to it.

VoYdE wrote:i have like 1000 old windows 95 pcs they sit in my basement because they are to old to bother with, they take up a ton of space

You should set up a Linux cluster and make a big Folding@Home rig or something.

As a matter of fact, here's a link to Parallel Knoppix for setting up temporary Linux clusters.

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:42 pm

what about the hard drive? (sorry the only thing i have ever put in a computer is a wireless card.)

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:51 pm

llamaboy772 wrote:48x

Keep the drive. Scrap everything else. Or you can do like what We did at our house, and use it as a Music/Movie server on a wireless network.

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:08 pm

Does anybody know a picture tutorial for installing this kind of stuff? I still want to keep the hard drive though, i don't need it, but i don't want to waste it either.

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:35 pm

Google does work ya know....
http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutoria ... YSecHD.htm

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:38 am

BEEF!!! wrote:Google does work ya know....
http://compreviews.about.com/od/tutoria ... YSecHD.htm

They lost me half way thru the tut.

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